MSDN Ireland News

Back in the office today after a roller-coaster ride across Ireland for the Dr.Strangelove tour. It was great trip and it was fantastic to get out and meet developers from around the country. That movie gets better each time I watch it! I met some developers...

Congratulations to Paschal and co. from the Ireland .NET Developers Alliance ( www.developers.ie ) for a brilliant event last night. Eamon from Clipcode gave a really comprehensive overview of all the Web Services standards currently in the works. I look...

The Irish Developer Network are having a Christmas get-together on December 16th. Christian Weyer , one of the founders of thinktecture will be visiting from Germany to discuss what went wrong with Web services over the last few years and how to live...

Our whole Developer and Platform team was out on the streets yesterday handing out flyers for makeITsecure day. It was great to have the opportunity to get involved, but, I'll tell you one thing, looking out the window, I'm glad it was yesterday instead...

Thanks to everyone who showed up last night to make the MSDN Dr. Strangelove screening at the Sugarclub such a great night. I have to say, that movie is even better on the big screen. You know, much as I liked Peter Sellers in all his leading roles, George...

For those of you interested in web development using Visual Studio and ASP .NET, you might be interested in the Web Developer Kits currently available off the European Microsoft Web Developer site . The kits contains programming resources, training videos...

I just got a question in about how to apply to be a developer MVP in Ireland and I thought the answer may interest others.. so... If you haven't heard of it the Microsoft Valued Professional (MVP) Program, it's a program run by Microsoft to identify and...

I met up with some members of Ireland .NET Developers Alliance and Irish Developers Network at the Halo 2 launch last night. Great party - the Xbox team really know how to throw a bash - gives me something to aim for with our MSDN events! :) Fergal, from...

Just a note to let you know about the next MSDN Event. Here in the Developer and Platform Group, we often get questions on where is the best place to start if you want to get up to speed in .NET quickly. So, we decided to do a type of jump-start event...

Event Title: The Web Services Standards Stack And .NET Web Service Enhancements (WSE 2.0) Date: Monday, November 22nd, 7pm Location: St. Stephen's Green Hotel Speaker: Eamon O'Tuathail, Clipcode Knowledge Services Register here : www.developers.ie Some...

Rob has posted a couple of photos up from the MSDN social from last Wednesday. Check them out!

Slides from last Wednesday's meeting are available here under the past events section. Nick has also posted some additional information relating to the MSDN talk on his blog: www.nickgrattan.net . Thanks to everyone who came along and helped make it such...

Hi there, About time I got this blog up and running... :) I will be using it to add reminders of MSDN Ireland's events and activities. Next up on our list of events for this year is the MSDN screening of Stanley Kubrick's cold war classic "Dr.Strangelove...